میهن ای میهن
Maihan Aye Maihan
“O My Homeland”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026Transliteration
Tanida yade tu dar tar o podam mayhan, ay maihan Boad labrez az ishqat wojodam mayhan, ay maihan
Tu bodam kardi az naboodi o ba meher parwardi Feday name tu bodo naboodam, maihan ay, maihan
Agar mastam agar hoshyar, agar khabam agar bedar Ba soye tu boad roye sojodam mayhan, ay maihan
Ba har majlis ba har zindan, ba har shadi ba har matam Ba har halat ke bodam ba tu bodam, maihan, ay maihan
متن اصلی
تنیده یاد تو در تار و پودم، میهن، ای میهن بود لبریز از عشقت وجودم، میهن، ای میهن
تو بودم کردی از نابودی و با مهر پروردی فدای نام تو بود و نبودم، میهن، ای میهن
اگر مستم اگر هوشیار، اگر خوابم اگر بیدار بسوی تو بود روز سجودم، میهن، ای میهن
به هر مجلس به هر زندان، به هر شادی به هر ماتم به هر حالت که بودم با تو بودم، میهن، ای میهن
A patriotic invocation of the homeland — 'maihan' called out as both address and refrain, in the tradition of Afghan longing poetry where the homeland is addressed as the absent beloved.
About This Recording
An old Afghan habit: address the homeland the way you would address a lover. 'O my homeland' lands like a call across a distance, the singer standing on the soil and yet somehow exiled from it, trying to close the gap by saying the name aloud.
Opening the Vol. 1 cassette with a patriotic number set the terms. Zahir's catalog was never only private feeling. It was a record of who Afghans were at a particular moment, and the first track said as much.
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